override HTTPS certificate failure

Trevor DeVore lists at mangomultimedia.com
Wed Oct 26 10:42:37 EDT 2016


On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Peter TB Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 26/10/2016 14:42, Trevor DeVore wrote:
>>
>> Peter,
>>
>> I agree that in most cases you don’t want people bypassing these warnings.
>> There are situations in software development where people testing software
>> against staging servers need to connect over https without the
>> verification
>> step. That is why I had to implement it in my custom libURL version.
>>
>
> There are several other enormously superior options.
>

Perhaps, but for testing purposes we don’t really care about implementing
them :-) Here is my question for you - are you arguing that LiveCode (a
development tool) should not have the ability to allow a developer to
create an application that allows a self-signed certificated that can’t be
verified to bypass the verification process for that particular server?

-- 
Trevor DeVore
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